"No Artist Information Available" won't go away

and an explinatioon where exactly i find this??

found link .... still no idea where the XML is ....

This is getting pretty bad .... I know more than my share of how to do this ... but this is a pretty bad guessing game .... if this is so easy why can't someone just give me the PATH to where the xml is and what the change is

http://xboxmediacenter.svn.sourceforge.n...ision=2749

click on the "text changed" bit down the bottom next to the files

ok cool link works .... and the new file removes the "Biography" / artist info view...

is this the solution
..... get rid of artist info altogether? .... how does xml call the artist info? I'll try to make it work....

seriously ... that artist info piece and the fact that the font is readable from the couch make this the most usable skin......

Hello all, first time poster here, long time XBMC user.

I just want to confirm that I tried the above fixes and they didn't seem to work, instead they remove the Media Info view as a whole.

The problem is in the music library on the Media Info view in Project Mayhem III. At the bottom of the screen "Biography - Not Available" persists/overlaps with the artist biography.

If anyone knows how to fix this, would be much appreciated.

Here is a solution, it works well for me.

The basic idea is that you can turn off that "Biography - Not available" message globally. It means that it never will be displayed. So you will miss a little bit of functionality: if it is no biography for the currently selected artist, XBMC also won't tell you that.


The steps required:

1. check that which video mode do you use - PAL, NTSC, …

2. make a backup copy of this file:
XBMC/skin/Project Mayhem III/<your video mode>/CommonViewTypes_Library.xml
(For example, in a PAL system: XBMC/skin/Project Mayhem III/PAL/CommonViewTypes_Library.xml.)

3. Find this section in file "CommonViewTypes_Library.xml":
<label>$LOCALIZE[21887] - $LOCALIZE[416]</label>

4. Replace the text between "<label>" and "</label>" with a space.
For example, this is the original line:
<label>$LOCALIZE[21887] - $LOCALIZE[416]</label>

replace with this:
<label> </label>

5. Put the changed "CommonViewTypes_Library.xml" file to the original place (XBMC/skin/Project Mayhem III/<your video mode>/CommonViewTypes_Library.xml)

6. restart your xbmc

I hope this helps you.

Is this really an issue concerning a prompt when there is no artist info or is it a scrapper issue? I find that about 80% of my artists have no info based on my initial scrap but if I go into the artist screen and select REFRESH then the info gets added (although I have to select the artist from a list of potential artists.

I think the problem I'm having is because I update my ID3 tags so that artists are listed LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME. This seems to mess up the scrapper?!?